Pitcher, Princess and Prankster all have C’s in various classes. This is not allowed at our house. Let’s not debate whether or not C’s being allowed is silly. The point is, they aren’t. So Bucket and I have instituted a new rule. We call it “Study Hour,” cause we’re not very creative. Every night, for the hour before bedtime, all three of them are to sit at the kitchen table and study the subject in which they have a C.

Tonight, the Study Hour was implemented. I have been groused at, talked about behind my back and blatantly ignored. But they are still sitting there. You would think I had pulled out every hair on their heads with tweezers.

I have watched Princess pretend to study while playing on her cell phone. I have seen Pitcher flip through the pages of his Spanish book with a blank stare. I have seen Prankster color new designs on his binder. I have seen very little actual studying.

One thing I have learned in this Crazykidfamily is that I must stay the course. Some days it’s more difficult than others, but it almost always pays off when I stick with the original plan.

I have had a FANTASTIC weekend. Nothing overly special happened. I wasn’t presented with jewelry. I didn’t get a new car. I didn’t even get new furniture or have an especially great hair day. It was just one of those weekends where we had no kids and no particular agenda. These don’t come along very often in the crazykidfamily.

Friday, I went to dinner with a good friend and then I went to see Pitcher’s indoor baseball game. This is the first indoor baseball game I have seen, and I have to be honest here, I am not a big fan. It really seems to me that it is just like practice for his travel team in between seasons. Anyway, I went, I supported, I cheered and I left after game one of a double-header. (Just so we’re all clear, Pitcher’s mom was there so I wasn’t leaving him on his own.) Then I came home and I READ A BOOK. I didn’t clean. I didn’t do laundry. I actually sat down and read a book. It has been SOOOO long since I have read a book at home. Then when I got tired, I just went to bed.

Saturday I visited with my mom for a bit and then went home for some quality time with Bucket. We only see each other on weekends due to his work schedule and that makes those days particularly valuable to me. We decided to take care of a bunch of the “have-to” stuff during the day Saturday. Mostly, this meant cleaning the house. It is imperative that we spend a few hours every other week or so to set right things we never have time to mess with otherwise. After that was done, we went to dinner with Bucket’s brother, sister-in-law and their kids and then went back to their house to win a euchre tournament. We stayed there until the Dodgers game was over (because Bucket and his brother actually cared about that and Bucket refused to leave in the middle) at 1 a.m.

This morning, I woke up to Bucket bringing me my favorite Starbucks coffee. We worked on a few more things around the house and then went to BW-3 since we no longer have the channel that carried today’s Colts game. The game was great, very exciting, we ate, we laughed, we left happy. We went and got the big kids (Monkeyboy doesn’t come home until tomorrow, unfortunately) and all of them are in a fairly good mood. All in all it’s just been extremely pleasant and rather relaxing.

But now it’s Sunday night. Tomorrow, we go back to work and back to being two ships passing in the night. Sigh. I’ll be counting down the days until next weekend…